The longest and most costly siege of the Cromwellian conquest. Limerick held out for over a year, ravaged by plague. Ireton died of plague during the siege. The city eventually surrendered in October 1651. The Cromwellian settlement that followed dispossessed virtually all Catholic landowners in Ireland.
Thousands died of plague on both sides; Ireton died
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